27 February,2021 06:55 AM IST | Mumbai | A Correspondent
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) once again overachieved its target of vaccination on Friday, probably due to the cancellation of vaccination on Saturday. More than 12,000 health and frontline workers received the jab on Friday, out of whom more than 4,000 got the second dose of the vaccine. There won't be vaccinations on Saturday as the COWIN app will be transitioned to COWIN 2.0 during the weekend.
The vaccination programme for senior citizens and people with co-morbidities and those above 45 years will be rolled out in the coming week. The COWIN app will need modification to suit the general public as the seniors and co-morbid people have to register through it.
On Friday the corporation had set a target to give vaccines to 11,300 persons at 40 centres, instead, 12,159 people, 108 per cent of the total target, received the jabs. Almost all civic-run centres witnessed more crowds. Kasturba hospital, which has the capacity to vaccinate 400 people, inoculated 834 persons. Similarly, KEM hospital, with a capacity of 1,000 actually inoculated 1,060 health and frontline workers. Sion hospital has carried out vaccinations of 609 people with a capacity of 500. Nair, BKC Jumbo, Bandra Bhabha and all other peripheral hospitals and COVID centres have been vaccinating more than their capacity while private hospitals have been vaccinating less people than their daily target.
On Friday, 6,655 health workers and 1,438 frontline workers received their first dose of the vaccine. Until now, 2.21 lakh doses have been given. Until now, 21,177 healthcare workers received the second dose.
